• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.200-206
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• 2023

Near-infrared (NIR) sensing technology using CMOS image sensors is used in many applications, including automobiles, biological inspection, surveillance, and mobile devices. An intuitive way to improve NIR sensitivity is to thicken the light absorption layer (silicon). However, thickened silicon lacks NIR sensitivity and has other disadvantages, such as diminished optical performance (e.g. crosstalk) and difficulty in processing. In this paper, a pixel structure for NIR sensing using a stacked CMOS image sensor is introduced. There are two photodetection layers, a conventional layer and a bottom photodiode, in the stacked CMOS image sensor. The bottom photodiode is used as the NIR absorption layer. Therefore, the suggested pixel structure does not change the thickness of the conventional photodiode. To verify the suggested pixel structure, sensitivity was simulated using an optical simulator. As a result, the sensitivity was improved by a maximum of 130% and 160% at wavelengths of 850 nm and 940 nm, respectively, with a pixel size of 1.2 ㎛. Therefore, the proposed pixel structure is useful for NIR sensing without thickening the silicon.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2002년도 추계학술대회 논문집 전기물성,응용부문
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• pp.215-218
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• 2002

In this paper some of optical current transformers and optical potential transformers for extra high voltage system are introduced. The optical current transformer and optical potential transformer will be adopted in the near future, because of increasing demands of high accuracy and good reliability of current transformer and potential transformer. The application cases of optical current transformers and optical potential transformers are also introduced.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.21-27
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• 2023

A highly sensitive optical-fiber humidity sensor is demonstrated in this paper. By using Nafion-PVA sol-gel and single-mode optical fibers, the Fabry-Perot humidity sensor is easily fabricated. In the humidity range of 29%-72%, humidity-response experiments are carried out with a cycle of rising and falling humidity to investigate humidity-response characteristics. The experimental results show 2.25 nm/%RH sensitivity and a 0.9997 linear correlation coefficient, with good consistency. The changes in optical-path difference (OPD) and free spectral range (FSR) with humidity are also discussed. The humidity sensitivities of a typical sensor are 80.3 nm/%RH (OPD) and 0.03 nm/%RH (FSR). Furthermore, many humidity sensors with different Nafion-PVA sol-gel concentration and initial cavity length are experimentally investigated for humidity response. The results show that the sensitivity increases with higher Nafion ratio of the Nafion-PVA sol-gel. The influence of changing cavity length on sensitivity is not obvious. These results are helpful to research on optical-fiber humidity sensors with good performance, easy fabrication, and low cost.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.23-29
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 선박이송용 트레슬의 표면에 부착할 수 있는 광섬유센서 패키지를 설계하고 파장다중분할방식에 기초한 센서 네트워크를 설계한 후, 모의 트레슬 유닛을 이용한 실험을 통하여 트레슬의 구조적 건전 모니터링을 위한 스마트 트레슬의 가능성을 확인하였다. 광섬유 브래그 격자 센서는 알루미늄 관으로 만들어진 원통형으로 패키징 되었다. 또한, 패키징 된 광섬유 센서를 폴리머 튜브에 삽입 한 후, 튜브 내부에 에폭시를 충전하여 센서가 해수에 대한 부식저항과 내구성을 갖도록 하였다. 패키지 된 광섬유 센서는 0.2 MPa 하의 수압테스트를 통하여 해수에서의 사용에 대한 신뢰성도 검증되었다. 트레슬의 변형에 관한 유한 요소 해석에 의해 얻어진 트레슬 부재의 변위가 큰 곳을 중심으로 트레슬에 부착할 브래그 격자의 수와 위치를 결정하였다. 최대 하중이 가해지는 트레슬 부재의 변형은 ${\sim}1000{\mu}{\varepsilon}$의 변형율로 분석되었으며, 그 때 트레슬에 걸리는 최대 하중으로 인한 센서의 브래그 파장 변화는 ~1,200 pm으로 계산되었다. 유한 요소 해석에서 얻은 결과에 따라 센서의 브래그 파장 간격을 3~5 nm로 결정하여 트레슬에 하중이 가해 졌을 때 센서 사이의 브래그 격자 파장값이 겹치지 않도록 설계하였다. 5개의 광섬유센서 패키지로 구성된 센서 모듈 5개를 연결하면 브래그 격자 센서 50개가 네트워크 될 수 있으므로, 브래그 격자 파장 검출기의 광원 중심 파장이 1550 nm에서 150 nm 광학 창 내에서 모두 검출될 수 있도록 하였다. 모의 트레슬 유닛에 부착 된 5개의 광섬유 센서 패키지의 브래그 파장 이동은 광섬유 루프미러를 사용하는 브래그 격자 파장검출기에 의해 잘 검출되었으며, 그 때 검출된 브래그 격자 센서의 값은 최대 변형률이 약 $235.650{\mu}{\varepsilon}$로 측정되었다. 센서 패키징과 네트워킹의 모델링 결과는 실험 결과와 서로 잘 일치하였다.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2004년도 하계학술발표회
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• pp.252-253
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• 2004

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2007년도 하계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.29-30
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• 2007

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2002년도 제13회 정기총회 및 2002년도 동계학술발표회
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• pp.10-11
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• 2002

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.405-423
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• 2016

In this study, the feasibility of using telecommunication single-mode optical fiber (SMF) as a distributed fiber optic strain and crack sensor was evaluated in concrete pavement monitoring. Tensile tests on various sensors indicated that the $SMF-28e^+$ fiber revealed linear elastic behavior to rupture at approximately 26 N load and 2.6% strain. Six full-scale concrete panels were prepared and tested under truck and three-point loads to quantify the performance of sensors with pulse pre-pump Brillouin optical time domain analysis (PPP-BOTDA). The sensors were protected by precast mortar from brutal action during concrete casting. Once air-cured for 2 hours after initial setting, half a mortar cylinder of 12 mm in diameter ensured that the protected sensors remained functional during and after concrete casting. The strains measured from PPP-BOTDA with a sensitivity coefficient of $5.43{\times}10^{-5}GHz/{\mu}{\varepsilon}$ were validated locally by commercial fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors. Unlike the point FBG sensors, the distributed PPP-BOTDA sensors can be utilized to effectively locate multiple cracks. Depending on their layout, the distributed sensors can provide one- or two-dimensional strain fields in pavement panels. The width of both micro and major cracks can be linearly related to the peak strain directly measured with the distributed fiber optic sensor.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2008년도 동계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.361-362
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• 2008

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2005년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2005
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• pp.628-632
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• 2005

Remote sensing through atmospheric turbulence had been hard works for a long time, because wavefront distortion due to the Earth's atmospheric turbulence deteriorates image quality. But due to the appearance of adaptive optics, it is no longer difficult things. Adaptive optics is the technology to correct random optical wavefront distortions in real time. For past three decades, research on adaptive optics has been performed actively. Currently, most of newly built telescopes have adaptive optical systems. Adaptive optical system is typically composed of three parts, wavefront sensing, wavefront correction and control. In this work, the wavefront sensing technology for adaptive optical system is treated. More specifically, shearing interferometers and Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensors are considered. Both of them are zonal wavefront sensors and measure the slope of a wavefront. . In this study, the shearing interferometer is made up of four right-angle prisms, whose relative sliding motions provide the lateral shearing and phase shifts necessary for wavefront measurement. Further, a special phase-measuring least-squares algorithm is adopted to compensate for the phase-shifting error caused by the variation in the thickness of the index-matching oil between the prisms. Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensors are widely used in adaptive optics for wavefront sensing. It uses an array of identical positive lenslets. And each lenslet acts as a subaperture and produces spot image. Distortion of an input wavefront changes the location of spot image. And the slope of a wavefront is obtained by measuring this relative deviation of spot image. Structures and measuring algorithms of each sensor will be presented. Also, the results of wavefront measurement will be given. Using these wavefront sensing technology, an adaptive optical system will be built in the future.